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City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning by Tom Turner

In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.

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In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.

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In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.

The gardens made on the fringes of Central Asia in the past 5000 years form
a great arc. From the Fertile Crescent, it runs west to Europe and east to China and Japan. Asia's fringe was a zone of interchange: ...

This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects
on the contemporary spatial – and urban – reality. It develops a novel understanding of the rationale behind the construction of large-scale architectural complexes that ...

Garden design began in West Asia and spread through Europe. This book tells how, in
the British Isles, it flourished to an extraordinary degree. Following the historical method in Tom Turner’s books on Asian gardens (2010) and European gardens (2011), ...

In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks
management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth ...

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image
of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in ...

In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in
the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in ...

Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including
London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in ...

Integrated Water Resource Planning provides practical, evidence-based guidance on water resource planning. In a time
of heightened awareness of ecosystem needs, climate change, and increasing and conflicting demands on resources, water professionals and decision-makers around the world are on a ...